Naval Institute Press: 579 books
by William N. Still, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This classic study examines the deployment of U.S. naval vessels in European and Near Eastern waters from the end of the Civil War until the United States declared war in April 1917. Initially these ships were employed to visit various ports from the Baltic Sea to the eastern Mediterranean and Constantinople...
Congo
The Miserable Expeditions and Dreadful Death of Lt. Emory Taunt, USN
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Lauded for his ability to tell compelling, true adventure stories, award-winning author Andrew C.A. Jampoler has turned his attention this time to a young American naval officer on a mission up the Congo River in May 1885. Lt. Emory Taunt was ordered to explore as much of the river as possible and report...
Global Reach
Revolutionizing the Use of Commercial Vessels and Intermodal Systems for Military Sealift, 19902012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Global Reach presents a unique view of the fiscal constraints facing the Department of Defense and the U.S. Government. It calls for U.S. policymakers and the general public to understand the message within the book. With this understanding, the United States will ensure its future ability to acquire...
Splinter Fleet
The Wooden Subchasers of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Hastily built at the onset of World War II to stop German U-boats from taking their toll on Allied shipping, the 110-foot wooden subchasers were the smallest commissioned warships in the U.S. Navy yet they saw as much action as ships ten times their size. In every theater of war these expendable”...
Japanese Battleships, 1897?1945
A Photographic Archive
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
This unprecedented photographic collection contains 125 stunning black and white photographs of the battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The remarkable images, some very rare, constitute an archive that is almost without equal in the West. The book begins with the launch of Japan's first contemporary...
No Room for Mistakes
British and Allied Submarine Warfare, 19391940
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
No Room for Mistakes is a thoroughly researched account of British and Allied submarine warfare in north European waters at the beginning of World War II. Haarr has compiled research from a wide range of primary sources to create one of the most readable, comprehensive accounts of early war submarine...
"No One Avoided Danger"
NAS Kaneohe Bay and the Japanese Attack of 7 December 1941
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
"No One Avoided Danger" is a detailed combat narrative of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attacks on NAS Kaneohe Bay, one of two naval air stations on the island of Oahu. Partly because of Kaneohe’s location-15 air miles over a mountain range from the main site of that day’s infamous attack on Pearl...
Scotland and the Sea
The Scottish Dimension in Maritime History
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Scotland’s maritime heritage is a highly significant one, embracing as it does a quite outstanding contribution to Britain’s development both as an empire and as the world’s leading maritime power in the nineteenth century. Scottish engineering, ship owning and operating, as well as business and...
The German Invasion of Norway
April 1940
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
This major history documents the German invasion of Norway, focusing on the events at sea. The first operation in which the air force, army, and navy worked closely together, Operation Weserübung included the first dive-bomber attack to sink a major warship and the first carrier task-force operations....
El Dorado Canyon
Reagan's Undeclared War with Qaddafi
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
America's war on terrorism did not start on 11 September. Long before the overt war in Afghanistan and the covert war against al-Qaida, U.S. forces struck at one of the hotbeds of terrorism in the world. On 15 April 1986, in the dead of night, American strike aircraft roared into the very heart of Muammar...
Red Star over the Pacific, Revised Edition
China's Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
This is an assessment of how the rise of Chinese seapower will affect U.S. maritimes strategy in Asia.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
China’s maritime “gray zone” operations represent a new challenge for the U.S. Navy and the sea services of our allies, partners, and friends in maritime East Asia. There, Beijing is waging what some Chinese sources term a “war without gunsmoke.” Already winning in important areas, China...
Allied Master Strategists
The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Calling the Combined Chiefs of Staff the glue that held the British-American alliance together in World War II, David Rigby describes the vital contributions to Allied victory made by the organization, which drew its members from the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, the British Chiefs of Staff Committee,...
Baldwin of the Times
Hanson W. Baldwin, a Military Journalist's Life, 1903-1991
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Hanson W. Baldwin was America's best-known military writer and analyst in the 20th Century covering conflicts from World War II to the Vietnam War. He was the military editor of the New York Times for forty years and his dispatches from Guadalcanal and the Western Pacific won him a Pulitzer Prize in...